January, Part One

As per usual this time of year, we've been struggling with sickness over here for the last month or so. That combined with freezing temps and lots of snow has made for a bit of cabin fever. We started off the New Year with a great visit from the Worshams though and that was so fun! The same week Amy spontaneously met up with us in Chicago, Heidi called to see if they could come visit. It was great to have them here! They came on a Friday night and left on Saturday night. They brought lots of fun new games and it was great to see them. (Oops, no pictures).

Then on Monday, Jeremy started his new job! (I blogged about that already). It is going super well and he LOVES it! And I love that he loves it. :) He's working much harder/longer than he did in his last job, but he's very happy and I'm so glad.

The kids gave him some pretty good snuggles before he flew out on Sunday.

The week he started was our coldest week so far here. School was canceled for two days because the wind chills were down in the negative 30s, with actual temps well into the negatives as well.

This is me bundled up to...go get the mail. Trust me, it was necessary.

So I was going a little crazy with Jeremy out of town and not being able to leave the house, so one day I bundled everyone up (much more than our usual bundling) and took the kids to the mall. It shows how little I've gone to a mall, because not even Eli knew what a mall was! Haha. So we switched off between shopping for new work clothes for Jeremy and running around the mall and playing at the kids play place to burn off a lot of energy. They kept saying how fun it was and how they wanted to stay there forever! Obviously we need to get out more. We had lunch in the food court and bundled up again before heading out into the cold. It was snowing pretty heavily when we left, but it was well worth it!

Since then, it hasn't been nearly as bad. We've been having lots of indoor dance parties to get our exercise and we read lots of books, and visit the library more often. :)

 Connor runs around with his cape on most of the time too. :)

 Anna with her dollies in her bed. She got lots of girl toys for Christmas, but to be honest, most of the time she's playing with a gun or pushing cars or legos around in her stroller. Haha.

Luckily we've have lots of beautiful snow too! If it's going to be freezing, it might as well be snowy. I have lots of snow pictures to put up in the next post. Stay tuned...